I'm a little apprehensive about my surgery. I know its minor with the vein-stripping, but i get bad thoughts about a mistake happening during the operation. The last one wasn't succesful, and it happened to be that i was one of the 5% that was unsuccesful as opposed to the %95 successrate. Is there anyway, if possible, that something tragic could happen that would result in leg amputation? Or would the doctor just have to be really incompetent, but my one surgery with him already went awry by not being successful. I just need some assurance. Could you help me?
2006-11-10 12:03:42 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
There is more than one way to strip veins and without knowing which method was used the first time,I will do the best I can to answer your question the best I can.
Having worked in the OR as a Scrub Nurse,I have only helped do vein stripping in one particular method.
This requires an incision at the top of the leg and one at the bottom of it and I would think that it should have been sucessful as there is little that could go wrong EXCEPT for a vein breaking during the procedure thus possibly requiring additonal incisions.
If you have veins that are poor veins I suppose that it is possible that you are that 5% that will not be sucessful therefore I don't know if your second procedure would be anymore sucessful than the first.
Now if your surgeon did the procedure that I am familiar with the first time but is going to use another procedure on the other leg,there is the possiblility that it may be more sucessful.
If the second procedure is no more sucessful than the first,either way you are probably alittle better off than you were to begin with because the veins that were causing the problems to begin with have been either lessened.
You might want to visit another Dr and give him the information about your first surgery and seek his/her opinion about going through a second surgery.
2006-11-10 16:16:21 · answer #1 · answered by Just Q 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh dear. Has the doctor explained why you are not going to have problems on this surgery go-around? Is there anyway you can get a different doctor?
My MIL had her varicose veins stripped -- it was painful, but her legs are much happier now. She was in the successful area.
If you don't trust your doctor, I think you should get a second or third opinion, and find someone who you feel good with. It will help your healing *a lot* if you are positive about the results you expect.
Good luck and *healing thoughts*
2006-11-10 20:14:12 · answer #2 · answered by Madame M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know if you had a bad experience once with this surgeon, then I would find a different one to do my surgery. Good Luck!!!
2006-11-10 20:10:34 · answer #3 · answered by ozarkangel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋